Thursday, December 15, 2016

The Song of 2016

The song of 2016, obviously, necessarily, powerfully is...Beyoncé’s “Formation.”The surprise single – which dropped the day before last winter’s Super Bowl and which Queen B defiantly and confidently performed at the big game before dropping her latest game elevator, LEMONADE, in the spring – had it all:A bold feministic message.A declarative and definitive acknowledgement of self.And a contagiously sick beat.It was a long-con rally cry for a year that’s not yet over and, best of all, for a story – a history...a herstory – that’s yet to be fully written.“Formation” is not only the song of the year. It is the song of the future.Time to get, ladiespeople everyone. Time to get.Indeed, time to slay: